Journey from Bethlehem in Pennsylvania to New Harmony on the Wabash
Reading – Harrisburg on the Susquehanna – Picturesque Juniata Valley – Height of the Alleghenies – Stay at Ebensburg – Hunting excursions – Laurel Hill – Blairsville – New Alexandria – Pittsburgh – Economy on the Ohio – Society of Mr. Rapp – Wheeling – Navigation of the Ohio – Marietta – Parkersburg – Cincinnati – Louisville– Mount Vernon
September 21, 1832
At nine o’clock in the evening, we left Harrisburg with the stage and continued our journey in the usual manner until daybreak, during which time we changed horses several times. We drove across the bridges of the Juniata River Susquehanna River and then across the Juniata, which emerges from the Allegheny Mountains and empties into the former. For a long time, the road runs along a high, steep bank of the river; the road was so narrow that, by moonlight and the light of our lanterns, the situation looked very dangerous.